- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (5 video files (2 hr., 16 min., 15 sec.)) : sound, color.
- Summary
- Nonprofit executive and labor advocate William Gerald Fletcher, Jr. was born on June 21, 1954, in New York City. He graduated from Mount Vernon High School in 1972. Upon earning his B.A. degree in government from Harvard University in 1976, he spent the next three years working as a welder at a Massachusetts shipbuilding company. His career in the labor movement would include working for Boston Jobs Coalition Greater Boston Legal Services, District-65 United Auto Workers, the National Postal Mail Handlers Union, the Service Employees International Union the AFL-CIO and the George Meany Center for Labor Studies. In 2002, Fletcher became president and CEO of TransAfrica Forum, .Fletcher authored a number of publications highlighting and chronicling African Americans and the U.S. labor movement.
- Alternative Title
- History Makers video oral history with William Gerald Fletcher, Jr.
- William Gerald Fletcher, Jr.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Internet videos.
- Interviews.
- Nonfiction films.
- Oral histories.
- Credits (note)
- Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
- OCLC
- 1003150316
- Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with William Gerald Fletcher, Jr.
- Publisher
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
- Country of Producing Entity
United States naf
- Playing Time
021615
- Type of Content
two-dimensional moving image
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
video file
- Performer
Racine Tucker Hamilton, interviewer.
- Credits
Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
- Event
Recorded Washington, District of Columbia 2005 January 14.
- Source of description
Vendor-supplied metadata.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
Nonprofit Chief Executive.
- Added Author
Fletcher, Bill, Jr., interviewee.
Hamilton, Racine Tucker, interviewer.
Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.